Pocket for billiard and pool tables.



PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906.

J. W. DE CASTRO. POCKET FOR BILLIAR'D AND POOL TABLES.

APPLICATION FILED DEG.4. 1905.

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JOSEPH W. DE CASTRO, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

POCKET FOR BILLIARD AND POOL TABLES.

No. 831,328. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 1906.

Application filed December 4,1905. $erial No. 290,311.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OSEPH W. DE CASTRO,

of Newark, in the county of Essex, State of.

New Jersey, have invented a certain Improvement in Pockets for Billiard and Pool Tables, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in a triangularshaped horizontal surface pocket for playing fifteen-ball pool on a carom billiard-table, (that has no other pockets.)

Figure 1 is a corner section of a billiardtable. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the billiard-table looking directly at my pocket arranged in one corner thereof. Fig. 3 is an end view of the pocket-plug.

My triangular-shaped horizontal surface pocket B is made of a triangular-shaped frame B, of metal or other suitable material, to be placed in the corner A on the surface of the bed on a rectangular billiard or pool table to form a receptacle or pocket B to receive the balls as the players shoot or roll them in while playing the game of fifteen-ball pool or while playing any other game of pool or billiards on a pool-table or on a billiard-table.

In the side of the triangular pocket B that faces the center of the bed of the billiardtable is an opening which is the mouth C of the pocket B. On both sides of the mouth C of the pocket B are rubber cushions D, similar to the rubbercushions on the table on which the triangular surface pocket B is placed, making a continuous rubber cushion all around the table except at the mouth C of the pocket B. On the top of the triangular pocket B is a frame of metal or other suitable material covered with netting, forming a hinged lid or door E to prevent the balls from bounding out of the pocket B as the players shoot or roll them in and to be raised or opened to take the balls out of the pocket B. Inside of the triangular pocket B and across the mouth 0 is a rod G, covered with rubber or other material, which is to prevent the balls from rolling out of the pocket B.

In the mouth C of the pocket B is placed what are called pocket-plugs F to prevent the balls from going in the pockets B when the players are playing billiards or pin-pool or any other game in which the balls are to be 'kept out of the pockets B.

By placing the triangular horizontal pocket B in the corner A of the bed of a rectangular billiard or pool table it converts it into an octagon-shaped billiard or pool table during the time that it remains on the table and can be put on or taken off in one or two minutes without any injury to the table.

A coiled wire spring H, attached to the pocket-plug F and to the rod G, holds the pocket-plug F in the mouth C of the pocket B while the players are playing billiards or pin-pool.

Coiled wire springs I, attached at one end to the point of the triangle that goes in the corner A with hooks at their other ends that go over the cushionrails, keep the triangular pocket B in the corner A securely while the players are playing.

The triangular frame B and the cushions D are covered With cloth similar to the cloth on the table on which they are placed, making both harmonize in appearance.

I claim- 1. A pocket for billiard and pool tables, comprising a triangular frame adapted to fit in the corner of a table, the exposed side or hypotenuse of the triangle being straight with a gap or mouth at its middle and provided at both sides of said gap or mouth with the usual undercut cushion-rail of a billiard or pool table fixed thereon and adapted to extend upward from the table-top, and means for holding said frame to a table.

2. A pocket for billiard and pool tables, comprising a triangular frame adapted to fit in the corner of a table, the exposed side or hypotenuse of the triangle being straight with a gap or mouth at its middle and provided at both sides of said gap or mouth with the usual undercut cushion-rail of a billiard or pool table fixed thereon and adapted. to extend upward from the table-top, and a plug adapted to fit said gap or mouth and close the same uniform with the rest of the front wall.

3. A pocket for billiard and pool tables, comprising a triangular frame adapted to fit in the corner of a table, the exposed side or hypotenuse of the triangle being straight with an outwardly-flaring gap or mouth at its middle and provided at both sides of said gap or mouth with the usual undercut cushion-rail of a billiard or pool table fixed there on and adapted to extend upward from the table-top, a plug uniform with the said walls at the sides of the mouth adapted to fit said mouth, and means for retaining said plug against outward displacement.

4. A pocket for billiard and (pool tables, comprising a triangular frame a apted to fit in the corner of a table, the exposed side or hypotenuse of the triangle being straight with a gap or mouth at its middle and provided at both sides of said gap or mouth With the usual undercut cushion-rail of a billiard or pool table, a retarding-strip extending across said ga or mouth inside the said frame, and a plug a apted to fit said gap or mouth and close the same uniform With the rest of the front Wall.

5. A pocket for billiard and 001 tables, comprising a triangular frame a apted to fit in the corner of a table, the exposed side or hypotenuse of the triangle being straight With a gap or mouth at its middle and provided at both sides of said gap or mouth With mouth to close the same uniform with the rest of the front Wall, an upper strip extending above said mouth between the adjacent ends of the front side of the pocket, a top frame or cover hinged to the triangular frame at its acute angles, and netting secured at its edges to said top frame and to the upper strip of the front side of the pocket. V.

In testimony to my invention I here set my hand this 10th day of June, 1905.

JOSEPH W. DE CASTRO. Witnesses:

RUDOLPH HELLER, JOHN HOLLENBERG. 

